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Man attempts ‘armed’ robbery with iPhone

Jerome Taylor, 20, donned a mask and entered the Northern Indian Restaurant in New London, Connecticut, brandishing what appeared to be a small handgun. Instead of backing down, the restaurant’s cooks grabbed knives, called 911, and prepared for a fight.

It was then that Taylor himself backed down, showing them that the “gun” was actually an iPhone, and stating that he was attempting a robbery because he needed money for his child. The cooks allowed him to leave, but police, not so sympathetic, tracked him down and arrested him.

Police charged Taylor with attempted robbery and interfering with an officer. Taylor could have, with an appropriate search of the App Store, found an app that would have allowed him to “fire” warning shots during his robbery. Android has similar ”gun shot sound” apps.

[Thanks: http://www.examiner.com]

Wake Forest University Created An Application for The iPhone and iPad

Victor Pauca has many gifts this Christmas, but the boy had been 5 years since before the year’s best gift: The ability to communicate. Victor suffers from a rare genetic disorder that slows the development of various capacities, including speech. To help him and other disabled people, his father Paul and some of his students at Wake Forest University have created an application for the iPhone and iPad. The program converts the touch screen in a communication tool.

Verbal Victor application allows parents and caregivers to disabled people take pictures and record phrases attached to images. With that information, show “buttons on the screen, and Victor can touch when you want to communicate. For example, an image of the garden can be accompanied by a recording of a sentence like “I want to go out and play.” When Victor plays the image, their parents or teachers know what they want.

“The user records the voice, so this is familiar to the child. There is something like a robot,” said Paul Pauca.

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